THE PROJECT TWINS
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about the art
The Project Twins work across a broad range of disciplines including illustration, design, print-making, painting and three-dimensional work. Working together through a process of dialogue and sketching, they are continually reducing forms to their most basic elements. Such use of minimal forms and bold shapes are rooted in the visual language of graphic design and semiotics.
Their work presents various dualities between the serious and the ridiculous, the melancholic and the joyful. Humour, irony and wit pervade their work while bold and playful graphics explore ideas of absurdity, identity and the mundane. |
about the artists
The Project Twins are James and Michael Fitzgerald, a Cork based art and design duo. B. 1982, they both received a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication from CIT CCAD 2005. They have exhibited in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin; Luan Gallery, Athlone; Hillyer Arts Space, Washington DC, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; VISUAL, Carlow; Academy of Art University, San Francisco and TULCA 2014, Galway. Their graphic work has garnered international attention from an array of clients with commissions from Facebook, Jameson, Aer Lingus, Bulmers, Penguin Group, The Guardian, Wired, Adweek, Variety and Nature Journal. They are represented by Synergy Art in the UK and US, and by The Illustration Room in Australia. They are members of Cork Printmakers and work from Sample-Studios in Cork City.
EXHIBITIONS 2018 Double Take: Collections & Context - Glucksman Gallery, Cork Sweet Autos - Doswell Gallery, Cork 2017 Exit Strategy - Clonmel Junction Festival, The Main Guard New Masters - Hen’s Teeth, Fumbally Exchange, Dublin Ballot - CCAD, Cork & Norwich University of the Arts, UK New Release - SO Fine Art, Dublin 2016 Good Creepy - Cork Printmakers, Ireland - Solo show Repression × Resurgence × Reemergence - Hillyer Arts Space, Washington DC, USA - Group show Present - The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking - Connecticut, USA - Group show Stories - Luan Gallery, Athlone - Group show 25 - Cork City Hall, Cork - Group show 16 - Printmakers Box-Set & Travelling Exhibition, Cork, Limerick, Dublin, Belfast, Liverpool - Group show TALKS 2017 WLGD, Copenhagen OFFSET, Main Stage Speakers, Dublin First Edition Print Symposium, Cork Body & Soul, Naturally Creative Talks Facebook HQ, Dublin 2016 Artist Talk, Metropolis Festival, Dublin. Artist Talk, VAI Get Together, IMMA COMMISSIONS 2019 Percent for Art Commission, Bunscoil Rinn an Cabhlaigh. (Upcoming) Large Scale Mural for Facebook Data Centre, Meath (Upcoming) Various editorial commissions for publications including The New York Times, The Economist, Wired, Nature Journal, New Scientist and Fast Company. Weekly illustration contributions for The Guardian newspaper, Jan 2018 - Present. 2016 Percent for Arts Commission, Woodbrook College, Bray. Mural Commission for Accenture’s new Innovation Centre, Dublin PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES 2016 Facebook Artist in Residence (3months), Dublin. |